ESCAPED ALONE — Red Stitch Actors' Theatre

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PRODCUTION INFORMATION

A sun-drenched suburban backyard, four older women: Vi, Sally and Lena and the visiting Mrs Jarrett reflect on their lives over the course of many summers together. A mariticide, an ailurophobe, a shut-in and a sometime lollypop lady. The years run into each other and the recollections take on a strangely unsettling tone as the neighbourly Mrs J takes turns as both narrator, and bizarre, cryptic chronicler of doom.

Churchill’s fantastical evocation of the mundane teetering on the edge of the apocalypse is at once a linguistic joy ride, a car crash and a theatrical marvel.

CAST & CREATIVES

Writer Caryl Churchill
Director Jenny Kemp
Set & Costume Designer Dan Barber
Lighting Designer Rachel Burke
Composer Elizabeth Drake
Sound Engineer Justin Gardam
Lighting Design Asst. Christopher Maxwell
Stage Manager Jackie Mates
Assistant Stage Manager Rachel Patterson

Cast
Julie Forsyth
Marta Kaczmarek
Caroline Lee
Margaret Mills

DATES & TICKETS
Previews 28 - 31 May | Season 1 - 30 June

Wed - Sat 8pm
Sun 6.30pm
Sat Matinee 2pm

“…a thoroughly worthwhile, fiendishly resonant hour of must-see theatre.” ★★★★☆
- ArtsHub -

“The performances, by some of the country’s finest actors, are uniformly magnificent.” ★★★★☆
- Australian Book Review -

“…director Jenny Kemp has created a production that is broadly minimalistic yet simmering with subtle complexity.”
★★★★
- Time Out -

Promotional photo by Robert Blackburn & Work Art Life Studios.

Production photos by Jodie Hutchinson.

We at Red Stitch acknowledge and pay our respects to Australia’s First Peoples and Elders past and present, and offer our gratitude to the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation, on whose unceded lands we work.